There are a few loose ends hanging from this thread that we want to clear up. The first is posting the maker's plate mounted on the 6 Pdr. Maxim-Nordendelt Q.F. Gun featured in #9. Here it is:
The second is that we finally found a photo of this gun in it's Army or fortress configuration which is the same as that featured in the Victorian QF Gun and early machine gun site linked here:
http://www.victorianshipmodels.com/antitorpedoboatguns/Nordenfelt/index.html This gun pictured is located in Finland at Soumenlinna Fortress in Sveaborg.
An interesting site which gives some good pics is linked here:
http://www.suomenlinna.fi/ Be sure to look around on this site until you see a thumbnail image of two field guns with the breech of the one on the right with a large hole in it. Who cares what kind it is. Probably a Krupp. What is most interesting about this pic to me is the fact it is the only one I have ever seen in which you have a group of women and one guy viewing the cannons. You can just imagine what the guy is thinking, "Wow, some good looking women AND cannons; maybe my luck is changing?" In the photo he is thinking, what do I do?-what's my move?, what?, what?, what??? Shortly after this pic was taken, the pressure became too great for him and he suddenly dove into a snow bank and began making snow-angels to get some attention. Glancing at his 3rd grade antics and muttering "loser!", the group moved on without him.
No change in luck for him that day! Filling in another visual gap, we found this pic from 1898. It shows, Smith, the gunner beside his POM-POM Gun, a Maxim-Nordenfelt machine gun on the US warship, Vixen. A US Navy photo with an unknown location. Thanks, double D. for the accurate description of the POM-POM.
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The Parrot has some great sights though. That's one good possibility. I guess I should find out what style rifling M&T are going to make available for these liners. I can't imagine the sky is the limit when you have to make different expensive cutters for each style and twist rate.
We have the square cut, (with very small radiused groove edges) Parrott rifling head and the larger 1.167" bore Brooke rifling head now, but we are planning on maybe two more to get started, a 1.000" bore, James System rifled liner with "flat" groove bottoms and maybe an Armstrong field gun rifled 1.000"liner which has lots of smaller, shallower grooves very much like modern, big gun rifling.
Thanks Rocklock. And I'm sure Mike and Tracy wish to shank (I mean thank) you as well.
After Gary's wild-eyed comments, I think 'shank' is the proper verb as in "to shank". To shank or not to shank, that is the question!
Mike and Tracy